During our trip to Zambia last month, we were blessed to spend time with Mike and Linda Jones. Mike and Linda have been in Zambia, ministering to the locals, for over 13 years now and share in common with WOR a desire to serve Orphans.

Mike agreed to act as our Director of Missions for Africa and we are so excited to take advantage of his experience and look forward to working with him and Linda to establish ways in which we can bless Orphans in Africa.

One project that we have agreed to move forward on is an orphanage in Silembe. Silembe is about an hour north off the main road from Kolomo. Silembe is home to nearly 100 families and our plan is to build 6 homes to serve 72 Orphans in this community. Each home will house 12 of these children and a house-mother. We believe that we can build this Orphanage for under $1,700 per child with each of the six homes being constructed for $10,000. Our next step will be to establish water at the site before we start construction in the next several months.

There will be opportunities to serve either on-site or by participating with fundraising for various stages of this project. A complete build-out for this project is planned to take two to three years. We'll keep you posted.